Cafeteria worker treated me condescendingly

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People who perceive themselves to be at the bottom of society's pecking order, will often seek to laugh at or demean someone that they in turn, perceive to be worse off then they are. This can happen regardless of skin color, race, etc. Subsequently, the person being picked on, discriminated against, etc. will then seek to reduce the detractor, by comparing educational levels, socio-economic status, etc. This can go on indefinitely. The thing is, to recognize this unfortunate pattern, and decide if you want to participate, retaliate, or walk away and count your particular blessings.

MW99,
just make a complaint to the manager of the cafeteria [email,letter etc] about them if is bad.
Sister did that to a subway shop and they did something about it.
But am do not understand why colour was brought into this [had read the original unedited post],when a human is a human,nothing more or less-whats' the need for noting colour? also how was able to judge he had not much education unless it was written somewhere on him?
Having a cafe job isn't a sign of low education,it's a common job here of people who have degrees.

Also,why remove the references to black as it now makes those who have previously posted look like it's imagined.
It would have been better to remove it at the beginning before anyone actually saw it.

I sanitized my original post with a few butt saving key words. Give it another read.

Even if he was a world-class professor working in the café to observe human behaviour for his next paper, and whether he was black, white, purple or pink with green spots, I don't think he has any excuse for treating Mw99 so rudely. I've been on the receiving end of that quick sideways movement of the head, that, "Quick - cop a load of this mutant!", and it's horrible - you know that you've been judged and found wanting, and that from that moment on, whatever you say or do is just going to reinforce the instant opinion of you that person has formed.

It's not nice.

Cafeteria people ARE important and you need to stay on the right side of them. They can give you nice food or they can give you ptomaine. Even 'important' people suck up to food providers, it's normal.

Steve, I don't understand what you are referring to at all.

Having worked in the cafeteria business in my past, I can assure you, the only doctorate students there are from the School of Hard Knocks.. It's hot, boring, tedious work, and any distraction (whether nice or not) is a godsend. Most folks there are high-school grads at best, and it's one of the few fields where ex-felons can get jobs, so it's best not to rile them. It's also incredibly demeaning, and the idea of seeing someone 'worse off than you are' is a little pick-me-up, no matter how far down the ladder you may be.

There's no reason you have to acknowledge their behavior. After all, you're going to leave the cafeteria, and go back to an intellectually stimulating world...and they're not...